My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.
My life shines with God’s radiant blessings when my heart is the color of joy.
I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.
Each of us is a small part of God’s plan. I’m a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.
Cherish the people who make up your home, and you’ll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.
I view art as an inspirational tool.
We all have romantic nature of one kind or another buried somewhere in our hearts.
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.
Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart.
Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.
I’m working on a snow scene right now, and it’s summer. It’s hot, and I will get chilly. I’ll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it’s 95 degrees in the studio. I know it’s nutty, but it’s a projection you have where you step into the painting.
The most important key to a more romantic life: you have to be willing to pay attention.
To be romantic is quite simply to allow yourself to fall in love with life – all of life – and experience it fully, openly, passionately, and purposefully.
Love is the stepping stone to new beginnings.
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.
A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don’t have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It’s just there every day. It’s not limited by the element of time. It’s a constant part of the home.
There’s been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn’t been, until now, million-seller art.
It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are ’almost done.
I love audio books, and when I paint I’m always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I’m listening to audio books.